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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
RELIGIOUS READING.
e,oE A WEE T. THE QUIET.

Iwo~.cra harbour wrang thocht
Iwouldna wisht tae see
Ann whit o. the glory o Heaven
TIL the King is a ready for me
Oop there: but I'm sometimes weary
O. the worrit Of the day,
An IA to wonderin', ckiel. hoo lang
It Will be to the end o. they way.
Then sit me doom i the armchair
An lat my thocht room free
Amang the wonderful comforts
Preparin' for you an me
Cop there i the blessit hame-lan'.
think o. the streets o gold
whaur never is heard a foolish ward.
Whaur the puir ne'er shiver wi cauld;
Whaur there's Iuve 'twixt neebo. an neebor.
Nae malice, nae froons, nae pride,
Nae graspin' for gold an siller.
Nae langings unsatisfed,
An whaur the smile O. the Father
Wi gladness fills a the place
o, that city is BRIGHT wi the sweet luve-licht
That beams frae the Fathers face!
An sac TAX on new cOorage,
An strength for the conflict here,
BY bidin' a wee i the quiet
AVA frae the worrit an fear.
The Master needed His heur
AVA frae the eager press,
An you an l. chiel, tae do our wark weel,
Need our hours O. quietness.
". ". Burrin, " y O5serue.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
CLARA BELLE LETTERS.

Their Vile and Indecent Character Ex-
posed-Their Continued Appearance in
Alleged Respectable Journals.
A correspondent of the Homan's
Journal writing from St. Paul says:
But there is no journalistic atrocity
that quite equals the continued publ
cation of the CLARA Belle" letters. Is
it the natural result of the prohibition
of impure literature to drive it from the
papers that can be seized rs openly
''Obscene" into the Sunday editions Of
our great dailics? Can the Woman's
Press Associations deal with this mat
ter?
There are two grades of letters pub
lished over the signature mentioned
above. both furnished bv some syndi-
cate to Western papers. perhaps TO
Southern papers, also. The letters of
the lower grade are vile in the en-
treme, and these are sent by daily
paper in San Francisco, one in st.
Paul and one in Chicago. / believe,
into thousands of families every Sun
day morning. The other grade is pub
lished by Chicago paper. a St. Paul
paper and other semi-respectable DAHL
les. Even this clarified grade of
letters gives low and lewd represen-
tatiOn of girlhOod and womanhood,
with stories of marital infidelity and
maidenly indccorum that would drive
pure-hearted mothers almost wild with
Indignation and sorrow if they real
lied the situation. So long rs sup
posed that the author of these letters
was woman l suffered keen shame as
woman. but when l learned the
creatures sex. supposed that decent
men would speedily put an end to the
outrage. Some vague protests have
been made, and some boycotting of the
Sunday papers by the best families;
but the editors who are in the secret
have. since the first exposure. carefully
guarded it from their readers. and
seem to think they are doing very
smart thing. Can any thing be done
to stop this game of false pretenses7
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
Remember. every moment of re-
stance to temptation is victory.

| Remember. every moment of re.
sistance to temptation is victory
Fa6er.
There are some who never seem
to feel any spiritual wants. and who.
if they have their food and shelter,
property and friends. would probably
never ask the question-Is there i
God?-Reu. Peter S. Menzies.
Il have seen beneath the micro
scope seed three thousand years old
start into instant termination when
touched with drop of warm water.
So human soul long apparently life
less begins to grow when touched by
the water Of life. Canon Vu6erforce.
There is danger of Christian church
membership being emp led of its mean
ing. When a man processes faith in
Christ. when he seeks to join the COM
muniOn of saints. does not that mean
that he considers 1t his bounden duty
to lead y life Of purity? If it does not
mean that. it means nothing. II the
church is not already a white cross
army, it ought to bc.-Ren. G.. ~
Philips. B. D.. Forfar.
"A noble thought entertained in
the morning may give cast and color
10 the feeling, and dispositions. and
doings, even. of the entire day. An
evil one. on the other hand. will have
the opposite effect We do we'll
therefore. to accustom ourselves to
proper thinking. SO that our minds
may be led out in ways that will help
us and improve our living and doing.
-United Presbyterian
"A man who thinks to sustain a
Christian character without seeking
experimental godliness. has been com.
pared to the Spartan who. after
vainly trying to m Ike a dead body
stand upon its feet, exclaimed:
1t wants something Within"
The merely nominal religionist,
like the dead body. also lacks some
thing within" Until he can say:
Christ is in me the hope of glory"
his Christian character is impossible
lions Herald
Suffer not distrust even in its
shadow to possess your soul. Do you
serve the best Of Masters? Is He not al
waysready. and His right hand held out
for your help? Look up to Him in faith.
and you shall see that He will never
abandon you; but at what time that
thou prayest to Him in sincerity and
confidest in Him. thou shalt feel Him
present within thine Utmost soul; bow.
ing Himself down TO thee. and saying:
.Hero am I'"-Sk B0Sl
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
Birds of Paradise.

These birds are the most beautiful in
all the world. with their splendid
plumes. that have every rich color in
them. just like precious stones In
old times these plu:ncs were worn on
ladies' bonnets.
The natives of the East Indies.
where they ara mostly found. prepare
he skins. with the feathers all on and
hen sell them for good deal of mon
cV.
Birds of Paradise were once called
Gods birds" Do you wonder?
There are a great many varieties.
nore than eight thousand; and they
all have the same peculiar scream.
Every morning before you were up.
fyou could be in the forest where
:hey live. you would hear their
''Wauk. Walk. W"k. Wok." rs if
hey were calling all the other feath.
ared tribes to he up and doing!
The."King Paradise" is the largest
# them all. Seventeen feet from tho
bill to the tip of its tail Think OF
that for bird! Almost as long as
three men put together. Its breast
5 covered with the richest shades OF
purple and violet with SOFT straw
colored feathers all over its head and
neck.
In the early spring. when these
birds are fully dress d. they get to-
,ether before tho sun is up and have
their dancing parties" rs the natives
call them. Choosing a tree with very
wide branches aud large leaves, they
lift their wings stretch out their
necks. and raise those gorgeous
plumes. keeping them all the time in
motion. As they move from branch
10 branch the whole tree seems alive
with these changing colors. Wouldn't
YOU like to see them in the land where
they live? Perhaps you will some
day!-Nrs. q. Hail. IN Our Liltle
VWSSs
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
WOMEN IN SWEDEN.

The Swedish Parliament Recognizes Uou-
an's Worth and Her l:iShts-A Stem In
the Right Direction.
The last session of the Swedish
Rigsdag was productive of several bills
of special interest to women. Herr F.
7. Borg brought forward one to pro-
vide for the election of independents
women on poor-law boards and school
boards, and also that a resolution
should be passed by the National
Health Department that any woman of
full age could be elected on the Board
of Health.
The first proposition was supported
by the legal committee. which MAIN
tanned that women. by disposition. as
well rs experience. were fit to UNDER
take the duties belonging to the guard
iansh;p of the poor. They have long
since acquired knowledge and a prac-
teal training in the case of the poor,
of whom, moreover. the larger proper
ton are women and children.
With regard to the second proposal
the election of women on school cOun-
cils-the committee considered it to
be advisable, inasmuch rs women were
teachers in every district. As the mo-
ton passed through the Rigsdag. the
second Chamber voted by one hundred
and one votes against seventy-seven in
favor of the measure.
The committee also approved of
Herr Borg's proposal that women
should be memS:rs of the Boards Of
Health. and the G. amber confirmed it
with thirty-eiSht Votes against twenty
four.
Herr August Box strom brought for
ward motion that women should be
taken into the Riksbark Government
Bank). but this. in accordance with a
representation made by the bank. was
rejected without discussion. 1t was
suggested. however, that the Govern
ment ought to ascertain how far wom-
en- could be placed in the smaller
branch offices, the number of which is
fast increasing.-EnglishWoman's Re-
7.ipa1
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
A NOTED woMAN.s CLUB.

/ An Organisation Of Women that Il Doing
Much Good Work.
The Chicago Women's Club was or
ganized in 1876. chiefly through the
influence of some members of the
Fortnightly, who felt that alongside of
the literary. artistic and social study
done in the Fortnigh,ly. Chicago
women needed an organization for
planning and directing practical work
in any direction needed. and, to cover
this broad purpose. they simply named
it 1.-The Chicago Women's Club"
The Club Is divided into six commit
tees-Reform. Philanthropy. Home.
Education. Art and Literature. Philos-
0phy and Science.
The Committee on Education gets
kindergartens. manual training and
industrial art teaching discussed in
the club. and. rs opportunity permits,
they press these subjects upon the pub
lie attention. They maintain a free
kindergarten. On the incoming of
the new reform .aayor, last spring,
they presented to h;m very intiuen-
italy signed petition asking for the
appointment of women on the School
Board. The mayor. acknowledging
the strength of their petition. said he
felt compelled to fill all the vacancies
on the board for this year with good
business men. but that he would en-
courage the appointment of two
women as assistant superintendent.
and another year would consider the
claims of women to positions on the
School Board. Two women assistant
superintendent were subsequently APP
pointed by the School Board.
The women's Club. in cooperation
with the w. c. L. u, has secured the
appointment of day and night matrons
in the county Jail and police stations.
and woman physician in the lunatic
asylum and pOor-house The visits of
the members of the Reform Committee
to these county institutions led to the
Chicago Doodle Investigations. These
women. seeing the poor quality of food
and clothing, made complaint to the
State Board of Charities, which led to
an investigation. In the report of the
Investigations made by the State Board
they recognize their obligations to the
Women's Club in reaching the facts
Mary e. Beedy, in Romans Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
Sunday-SchooI Lesson.
FOURTH QUARTER.

FOURTH QUARTER.
Oct. 16.-Power to Forgive Sins. Matt. Q:
Is
Oct. 23.-Three Miracles Matt. Q: 1881.
Oct. 3O-The Harvest and the Laborers. Matt.
.: 1888: 10: Is
Nov. 6.-Confessing Christ Matt 10: 32-42.
Nov. 13.-Christs Witness to John. Matt II !:
l-15.
Nov. 2O.-Judgment and Mercy. Matt II
1880
LII
Dec. 4.-Parable Of the Sower Matt 49,:
10
Dec. 11.-Parable OF the Tares. Matt. 49,:
1854
Dec. 1S.-Other Pdrables. Matt. -: 1888;
1852
Dec. 25.-Review Lesson selected by the
school; or. q Christmas Exercise.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
PROTECTION NEEDED.

Doyle's Terrible Crime and His made
quatc PunIshment
Emily P. Collins writing to the
Romans Journal from Hartford,
Conn.,. under date of Gets, says:
This week. Michael Doyle was tried
by the Superior Court for a brutal as
sault upon woman. The crime was
committed last June in Bristol. His
victim was Mrs. Lizzie Getterman. of
Westtield, Mass. a travelling sales
woman for whip concern. She was
passing an unfrequented place in Bris-
tol when Doyle met her and made vile
proposals to her. These were indig-
nantly refused, and then the young
man sprang at her. hit her terrible
blow ON the head and felled her to the
ground. Mrs. Getterman fought des-
perately, and Doyle became SO en-
ragged that he struck her . powerful
blow in the face. splitting her nose.
With . great effort the woman elected
the gag from her mouth and screamed
loudly for help. Her cries were
heard, and several men coming
to her rescue. her brutal assailant fed.
He was arrested that night in Terry
vile and bound over to the Superior
Court.
For this crime he was sentenced to
Jail for time. the judge saying that
he would spare him the disgrace Of .
term in prison.
If the laws regarding crimes against
women continue to be thus admins
tered. il seems that shooting gallery
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17

will be a necessary adjunct to ever,
school for girls. in order to teach them
how to defend themselves. since the
law. as administered. fails to protect
them.
Forty forcign-born men were granted
naturalization papers this week in this
city. They will be citizens and voters.
and very likely will oppose giving the
rights of citizenship to native-born
women. who must forever remain a.
aliens in the land of their birth
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN. %

Miss MARY L. BOOTH has returned
home from five months vacation i'm
Europe.
MARY BLAKE edits an lat Home"
column in the Golden Rule. and very
good it is.
Mrs. Susan G. YOGI. the business
manager of the advertising department
of the Romans Journal. has returned
from her summer outing rested and
ready for business.
Mrs. MARY BUTIN MCGoNEGAL oc-
cupied the Baptist pulpit of Clear
Lake. Ia, with acceptance, on one Of
the Sabbath evenings during her visit
there in September.
Miss ALICE GUERNSEY, formerly of
Wareham. Mass, and now editor Of
the Young CRUSADER. u bright juvenile
paper. published in Chicago, expects
soon to take u trip East
! Miss +. HENRIETTA MULLER. of Lon
don, was the honored guest at a recep-
ton given by the Illinois Equal
| Suffrage Association ut the Interstate
Exposition. About three hundred
guests were present. Miss Muller
sailed on her return October l.
Mrs. GENERAL I. r r COBB, of
Atlanta, Ga. has the original draft Of
the Confederate constitution, as it
came from the committee who drafted
it. 1t is said that Photographer
Sarony. of New York City. owns the
constitution as finally adopted by the
Confederate Congress.
Miss ELLEN ROBBINS. the flower
painter, has sold her cottage at Bar
Harbor, alleging that the resort is al
together too much that of the glass Of
fashion, and adds: If were to come
again next year l should expect to sec
the rocks and trees all decorated with
lace flOunces and bows Of ribbon"
Mrs. ANNA w. LONESOME PORTS
NJ. d.. who has won distinguished IA
vor in England, Ireland and Scotland
by her lectures on physiology and by
giene. has gone to Boston with the
purpose Of delivering series of SINH
lar lectures. Mrs. Potts is a native of
Philadelphia, and was . graduate from
the Woman's Medical College of that
city in 1852.
Mrs. E E. MALLORY. whom the w.
C. 7. u. of Springfield. Mass. select
ed for police matrOn. received the APP
pointment. and has qualified and Is
ready for work. The city voted a sal
airy of one hundred and fifty dollars
per year, and the W. C. T. u. intend
to increase it to five hundred dollars
The city has as ye. made no provision
for suitable quarters for her. but prom
Use to do 50.
THE Chicago Times docs not like
woman suffrage One Of its corre-
spondents has been hunting in Kansas
to see what fault can b found with the
women voters of that State, and this
Is what he says, with his heart turned
against women: Zone trouble il thu
the better women who will vote viii
want some immaculate candidate who
can't by any possibility be elected. and
they will vote for him. and this splits
the ticket" How dreadful that
women want to vote for good men 60
that. according to the Bible, ..whsn
the righteous bear rule the people NAV
rejoice! But the women are voter
in KansaA There il NO help for r.
The party that wants their votes NM
nominate grod men.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17
FOB OUR YOUNG READERS
TWO SIDES TO A QUESTION

~Oh. mammal" cried the little boy,
Il saw a horrid toad!
And had a mind to kill it
AS it hoped along the road
at had a lot OF ugly warts
All up and down its back,
And two such little specks OF eyes,
Thai looked so bright and black.
]'Such horrid ugly things as that
I'm sure ought not TO live"
But mamma said: .'You should not take
The life you can not give.
sand toads. although they may not be
So pleasant to the view,
Are harmless little creatures,
And very useful, too.
They catch the bugs and insects
That in our garden Turk,
And earn our kind protection
In payment for their work"
''Oh. mamma c-iei youthful toad,
i've had drea 1ful scare.
Isaw a great big horrid thing
Beside the tree out there.
<'It had such dreadful great long legs.
And such n big round head.
With two great eyes. that stared at mo
Until turned and fled.
81 hoped so fast I tumbled down,
And almost lost my breath!
Dear mamma tell ne what it was
That scared me half to death:'
''My dear the toad-mamra exclaimed,
And Rugged her child with JOY,
''rhat horrid thing that frightened you
Was nothing but q boy.
"Hs has q mamma. too, perhaps,
Who loves him quite as well
As / love you. and that I'm sure,
Is more than can tell"
''But he was such an u1ty thing"
The little toad replied.
I'm sure don't see how his ma
Could love him il she tried"
Golden Days.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17

The f7O. 600 gwen to Green Vic.
toria on her jubilee will be devoted t.
the training of n ,rses
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-17

-Nevada City has the best wates
system OF any town in California.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13

A New York correspondent of the
Charlotte News Observer, who has re-
Gently been touring the South, has
this to say OF the future of the Gran
berry mines:
"The greatest development North
Carolina has ever known will come
from the rapid construction of the
three C's railroad, Preceding letters
have contained incidental mention OF
the marble, timber, iron ore and coal
of the territory which the road is to
traverse, but they have failed TO con-
vey an appreciable or an approximate
idea of the vastness of those various
resources. Now, much the larger
body of the Bessemer ores of the Gran
berry district are in Mitchell county,
in your State, and still nearer you, are
the very large AID valuable deposits OF
hematite. At the same time coal is
within cheap handling distance. |
look for a development IN Mitchell
county, consequent upon the bring
ing together of ore and coal or coke,
such as has never been known in any
one part OF the Stair since the first
Englishman landed on Roanoke Is
land. What Birmingham, Admission
Roanoke and Sheffield have done and
are doing will be but as the dust in
the balance compared with the future
of some place Il cannot say where) in
Mitchell county. But cheap iron and
cheap coal mean very much more to
the whole State, for in those are con
centrated the whole of industrial de-
velopment."
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13
VOL. III.
Hns1 summer.

Yon little brooklet, amber and brown,
Mmmuring under the pine-trees old
Soft blue sky-aecks shimmering down,
Shot by the suns slant arrows OF gold
Gray stones cooling their feet In the stream;
Low.wind whispers like sounds in dream;
How they come back, 'twixt waking and sleep
Ghosts--I had thought were buried deep,
You said you loved me; doyou remember
Oh, does it matter to you what you saidf
Could June's roses bloom in December
Our past love might be raised from the dead
Sure, we Infested and laughed together.
PastIme meet for sweet Summer weather.
Blame your All, no; yon are not to blame,
Tho, mayhap you've forgotten my very name
Mine was the fault was slow to see,
The love oflast Summer was not made to last
You have your life-iull, happy and free;
And 1? Well-I have my buried past
Ny sweet bells tangled and out OF tune,
Ny roses that withered and died last June.
NY lonely heart that cries now, as theni
God CANT that we never may meet again
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13
Another Great bridge.

The great bridge now in progress
OF construction across the Hudson at
Poughkeepsie, is of great Importance to
the railway systems of New England
and those lying west and southwest of
the Hudson.
When completed this will be the on
~ structure spanning the river be-
tween New York and Albany; it will
be higher than the Brooklyn Bridge
and the longest cantilever bridge in
the world. The work is now going
on with large force Of men, and as
soon as the weather permits is to be
vigorously pushed with a greater in
creased force. It's completion is prem.
ised in y year.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13
JIM CUMMINGS AND HIS PALS.
Haight's Story Of the Expresg ROBBERY

ST, LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 5, 1SS7.-The
Grand Jury to-day found and return
ed to court and indictment against
Dan Moriarty, charging him with be-
ing an accessory after the fact to the
"Jlm Cammings" express robbery.
The sentenced train robbers-Whit-
rock, Haight and Weaver-will be TAX
en- to the Penitentiary at Jefferson
City tomorrow morning where
they will begin serving their senten-
ces.
W, W. Haight, one OF the SEN
fenced men, has furnished the local
papers written statement of his con-
nection with the affair. He says
therein that poverty and inability to
obtain employment forced him to de-
wise some means whereby he might
provide his wife and child with the
necessaries of life. To do this he
planned the robbery and approached
Witrock with the scheme. Witrock
became enthusiastic over it and there
after took the affair into his hands,
and he (Haight) heard nothing more
Of him until he read an account of the
robbery in the papers. Soon after
that Witrock sent him 81 900 by Oscar
Cook and summoned him to Leaven-
worth, There Witrock gave him $1O,-
600 more, He says it was he who
forged Mr. Damsels signature to the
pass which was presented to Forth
ingham and had the Adams Express
letter heads and envelopes printed.
Fotheringham he asserts, is absolute
ly innocent of each and every charge
brought against him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13

highest bidder, suspend the fair and
pay the debts Of the company, and
pro rate any balance to the stockhol-
ders was discussed, and, on motion,
of DR., Carr, was postponed until the
first Monday in April, when the ques-
tion will be finally disposed Of, if the
stockholders will attend the meeting
at that time.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13

Two Chicago men discussed the
weather the other morning, one
claiming that the mercury was below
zero, the other that it was above.
Then they backed up their opinions
with money, and hurried to the near
est drug store to consult the thermom-
eter. The man who thought the wealth
er extremely cold was nearsighted,
and while he was engaged in prepar-
ing to look at the instrument the 9th
er held his lighted cigar under the
bulb and won his bet with ease.
The duty on castor oil is $50 per
cent. Is that what you call protecting
our infant industries'